The HistoryMakers video oral history with Joe Davidson.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 17 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337100
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Joe Davidson
Joe Davidson
Other authors / contributors:Davidson, Joe, 1949- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2013 January 18.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2013 March 1.
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Summary:Newspaper columnist Joe Davidson was born in 1949 in Detroit, Michigan. He earned his B. A. degree at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan in 1971; and his M.P.P. degree from the University of Michigan. Davidson's professional career began in 1971 at the Detroit News. In 1974, he joined the Philadelphia Bulletin and became City Hall bureau chief. In 1984, Davidson moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the Wall Street Journal where he covered national and international politics, including the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa. In 2001, Davidson became editor-in-chief- at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. In 2005, Davidson joined the Washington Post as a columnist. Davidson was also a commentator on PBS's Religion & Ethics Weekly and National Public Radio. Davidson was a founding board member of the National Association of Black Journalists as well as past-president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists.